phở

The next two popular — or should I say available — jobs for Vietnamese people who just migrated to the US were to work at phở restaurants or food supermarkets, and that’s exactly what I did. I applied to be a chef at a phở restaurant.

2013, “taco truck cook”, in Gerard Sasges, editor, It’s a Living: Work and Life in Vietnam Today, Ridge Books, →ISBN, page 51

In 1975 refugees fleeing Vietnam introduced phở to North America and made it so popular there that now there are more than 2,000 phở restaurants in the United States.

2016, Kantha Shelke, Pasta and Noodles: A Global History, Reaktion Books, →ISBN

Today, the website Phở Fever lists over 3,000 phở restaurants in the U.S.

2016, Michael D. Wise, Jennifer Jensen Wallach, editors, The Routledge History of American Foodways, Routledge, →ISBN

Though there is no downtown or central shopping district to mark the area’s distinctiveness, the abundant phở restaurants, taquerias, and ethnic supermarkets in the area’s strip malls hint that Berryessa does not conform to antiquated stereotypes about the “burbs.”

2017, Tomás R. Jiménez, “Introduction”, in The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants Are Changing American Life, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 29

They walked around for almost one hour before finally finding one phở-style deli.

2018, Rose Thu, Vietnam Paradox, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 186